https://tinyurl.com/2026-ISR
School Staff
- Andrey Krywonos - UCF - krywonos@ucf.edu
- Enrique Rojas Villalba - MIT - erojasv@mit.edu
- Craig Heinselman - Univ. of Alaska - cjheinselman@alaska.edu
- Josh Semeter - Boston University - jls@bu.edu
- Katherine Cariglia - MIT - cariglia@mit.edu
- Roger Varney - UCLA - rvarney@atmos.ucla.edu
- Asti Bhatt - SRI - asti.bhatt@sri.com
- Phil Erickson - MIT - pje@mit.edu
- Pablo Reyes - SRI - pablo.reyes@sri.com
- Nestor Aponte - MIT - aponten@mit.edu
Video Playlist for 2020 and 2021
2021 Playlist for entire school
Video introductions to the various ISR facilities
- Jicamarca, Peru
- AMISR virtual tour
- Millstone Hill, USA
- Arecibo ISR, Puerto Rico (as of Summer 2020)
- Resolute Bay AMISR (RISR) construction, Canada
Tools
- GitHub site
- On line Jupyter Notebooks
- IS spectrum Java applet
- Python Incoherent Scatter tools from Mike and Roger based on Kudeki/Milla paper
- visuamisr python toolkit, AMISR Matlab toolkit, AMISR IDL toolkit
- References
- Useful background material on the web
- Notes on papers
- Literature and links
- ISR facts sheet
- Evans 1969
- Killeen 1984
- Lehtinen - alternating codes
- StMaurice 1999
- Thayer/Semeter 2004
- Nygren paper on radar and alternating codes
- Eiscat ISR lectures book
- Matlab Script to download and plot Madrigal data.
AMISR Experiment Design
ISR Summer School 2026 Experiment Request
AMISR schedule of actual operations
PFISR beam positions
PFISR real time data display
SWPC web page
2026 Student Groups
Past years ISR school wiki pages
MIT small radar site
NSF ISR Photo release Form
UCF ISR Photo release Form
Digisonde Data Base (choose PF765 for Poker) link
All times for July 9 are Eastern Time
| Date | Time | Topic for Exercises | Instructor | Videos | Exercises |
| Time in ET for July 9 | |||||
| July 9 | 12:00 PM | Introduction of participants | Andrey Krywonos | ||
| Group Assignments | Andrey Krywonos | ||||
| Computer needs and other logistics | Pablo Reyes | ||||
| 12:30 PM | ISR as a black box | Phil Erickson | ISR as a black box | ||
| 13:15 PM | Madrigal Database | K Cariglia/Pablo Reyes | |||
| Work on Madrigal Exercises - only web exercises | split into groups - instructor/group, everyone does the exercise | Data examples: PFISR example, Millstone example Ex 1: Web interface Ex 2: Script interface Ex 3: MadrigalWeb exercises | |||
| 14:30 PM | Break | ||||
| 15:00 PM | Introduction to the Ionosphere | Roger Varney | Intro_Ionosphere.pdf | ||
| 16:00 PM | Radar Physics | Asti Bhatt | Radar Physics | RADAR_PHYSICS_2026.pdf | |
| 17:00 PM | Open Q&A | All | |||
| 17:30 PM | End | ||||
| Monday July 20 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Introduction, Expectations, Logistics | Andrey Krywonos | |||
| 9:00 AM | Opening Remarks - NSF Program Director | Lina Patino | |||
| 9:15 AM | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Josh Semeter | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Radar_SignalProcessing_2025.pdf | |
| 10:15 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:30 AM | ISR Data Examples | Asti Bhatt/Roger Varney | |||
| Group work on ISR Examples | |||||
| Groups present ISR Examples | |||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Basics of Phased Arrays | Roger Varney | Phased Arrays | phasedArrays.pdf | |
| 1:30 PM | Statistical Signal Processing basics + Experiment design | Asti Bhatt/Roger Varney | |||
| 2:00 PM | Group work on Experiment Design | ||||
| 5:00 PM | Deadline to submit experiments | ||||
| 6:00 PM | Student Time Block 1 (2 hrs) | All lecturers attend Block 1 | |||
| 8:00 PM | Student Time Block 2 (2 hrs) | ||||
| 10:00 PM | Student Time Block 3 (2 hrs) | ||||
| Tuesday July 21 | 4:00 AM | Student Time Block 4 (2 hrs) | |||
| 6:00 AM | Student Time Block 5 (2 hrs) | ||||
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 9:30 AM | Leave for Haystack/Millstone Hill | ||||
| 11:00 AM | Arrive at Millstone Hill | ||||
| 11:00 AM | Introduction to Haystack | Phil Erickson | |||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch at Haystack | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Midlatitude and Subauroral Science using IS Radars | Haystack Geospace Group | |||
| 2:00 PM | Tours of Haystack | ||||
| 4:30 PM | Leave for Lake House | ||||
| 4:00 PM | PFISR Tour | ||||
| 5:00 - 7:00 PM | Lake House dinner (pizza) and swimming | ||||
| 7:30 PM | Bus departs for Boston | ||||
| Wednesday July 22 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Statistical Signal Processing | Josh Semeter/Roger Varney | Statistical Signal Processing | ||
| 10:00 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:15 AM | ISR Theory | Phil Erickson | ISR Theory | IS Theory 2025.pdf | |
| 11:30 AM | Open Q&A | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Start of group work | ||||
| 6:00 PM | End | ||||
| Thursday July 23 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Data analysis and fitting 1 | Pablo Reyes | Data analysis and fitting 1 | Data_analysis_and_fitting_part1.pdf 02_modeling_data_fitting_2021.pdf | |
| 9:30 AM | Data analysis and fitting 2 | Phil Erickson | Data analysis and fitting 2 | ||
| 10:30 AM | Break | ||||
| 11:00 AM | Extracting Ionospheric Features from Long-Term Observations | Yue Deng | |||
| 11:30 AM | Open Q&A | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Group work | ||||
| 5:30 PM | MIT IAP “Cantenna” Small Radar discussion and demonstration | Phil Erickson | NanoVNA Vector Network Analyzer Small and Short-Range Radar Systems (Greg Charvat) Principles of Modern Radar: Basic Principles (Radar, Sonar, and Navigation) (Mark Richards) | ||
| Friday July 24 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Intro to Phased Arrays | Roger Varney | |||
| 9:30 AM | Group work | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | ISR Science | Josh Semeter | ISR_Science_2025.pdf | ||
| 2:00 PM | Group work | ||||
| 6:00 PM | End | ||||
| Saturday July 25 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Group Presentation 1 | ||||
| 9:00 AM | Group Presentation 2 | ||||
| 9:30 AM | Group Presentation 3 | ||||
| 10:00 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:30 AM | Group Presentation 4 | ||||
| 11:00 AM | Group Presentation 5 | ||||
| 11:30 AM | Wrap-up and Review | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Depart | ||||